SUMMARY:

• A senior engineer experienced in end - to-end IT algorithm development for information systems with a demonstrated success of leading and developing technical solutions to complex problems which require ingenuity and creativity within multi-functional collaborative teams.
• Invented a “self-healing” algorithm which greatly extended the lifetime performance of module sensors
• Successfully executed an algorithm test production for the FIA earth imaging satellite system
• Succeeded in reducing flight qualified satellite system and sub-system electronic test anomalies
• Experienced releasing commercial quality EDA software to hundreds of users at Intel and AMD
• Succeeded in developing a safe and effective near-field phased array antenna error sensitivity test
• Optimized pattern recognition algorithms exceeding performance and ultimately saving mission time
• Established a database of 3D multi-spectral signatures of objects within certain classes and scenarios

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

System Model Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Succeeded in providing details regarding requirements tools to monitor algorithm and system development
• Succeeded in providing a top level plan for prototyping mission algorithm design improvement
• Studied white papers and unclassified program documents

Confidential

Algorithms Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Rapid prototyped algorithms scale-able to embedded applications on information systems
• Expanded Heuristic, Particle Swarm, Stochastic, and Genetic algorithms for self-healing (machine-learning)
• Co-authored paper and invention disclosure of a “self-healing” algorithm for a linear sensor array
• Studied algorithms which maintain performance in the presents degradation, like forward error correction
• Studied / analyzed data against cost / penalty function convergence rates using “least square error”

Confidential

Freelance Producer

Responsibilities:

• Produced/directed/processed 4 short independent film projects under a SAG/AFTRA New Media contract
• Performed codec transforms, color grading, AGC, white balance, contrast, intensity, gamma, audio alignment
• Transcoded MPEG2 into (MPEG4) H.264 files with wrappers uploaded to IP sites
• Used a Web Content Management System (WCMS) to update client sites with New Media content
• Used MS Office, Video/Audio HD Codec, GNU VLC, Rhozet, Adobe, Corel, GNU GIMP

Confidential

Imaging Scientist

Responsibilities:

• Established final ground system algorithm software requirement allocations and specifications utilizing a HPC (SGI ICE X - 125 K Core) with black box Image Signal Processor (ISP) pipeline tests
• Lead a collaborative production with subcontractors in creating ISP algorithm error correction test cases
• Tests include synthetic targets on phase history micro-patch video frames and measuring their impulse response
• Exploitation tests on: IIU, AGC, spur control, autofocus, adaptive filters, moving object identification
• Used UNIX Shell for test set up, FTP data transport, and modified / updated classified documentation

Confidential

Systems Quality Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed quality systems engineering for spacecraft sub-system surface mount electronic assemblies
• Provided independent mission assessment of qualified hardware / software identifying & mitigating risks
• Evaluated systemic performance issues (anomalies), proposed improvements, and drove them to closure
• Reviewed all major deviations, waivers, acceptance tests, and systemic-anomaly conditions
• Performed sign-offs at gate reviews: interface control, critical design, schematic review, and test readiness
• Applied 6 Sigma, LEAN processes, and worked under DO-160, DO-178B, ISO9000

Confidential

EDA Software Product Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing customer use cases of microprocessor (μP) design automation products
• Provided customers with up-to-date product evaluation scripts for under particular license agreements
• Created complex Boolean logic scripts which manipulated hierarchical polygon masks for E-beam photo-lithography
• Worked with Hercules, Links-To-Layout staging, floor planning, μP compiler, Layout to Schematic (LVS), and OPC

Confidential

Information System Design Analytics

Responsibilities:

• Performed design verification of an application specific integrated circuit for a very fast high-fidelity receiver
• Incorporated signal processor Hardware Abstraction Layers (HAL) via modular block topologies
• Custom coded in C, modular blocks which represented proprietary algorithms used within the circuit processors
• Coded simulations involving mathematical convolutions, conversions, transformations, filtering, and modulations
• Coded simulations involving data compression, error correction, and “Jitter” tests
• Used signal processing requirement documents as a basis for ASIC design verification simulation models
• Tested pattern recognition algorithms which detected, identified, and tracked, objects masked by physics
• Modified and compiled algorithms in FORTRAN for CRAY HPC computation
• Selected states / conditions from data warehouses for gaining statistical performance trends of algorithms
• Performed data analytics / trends among key classified parameter metrics
• Measured gains in performance from two curves: the “probability of detection” and the “false alarm rate”
• Demonstrated an array sensor sensitivity synthesis by developing a 3D simulation model
• Developed an infrared sensor tracking algorithm which computing the signature centroid of the object
• Gathered requirements for an upgrade proposal of a EOIR sensor system involving data fusion technology

Confidential, Seattle

Mission Survivability Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed computational electromagnetic (CEM) prediction software for system and sub-system design
• Derived signature “design-rule” specifications and sophisticated test methods
• Created models utilizing asymptotic solutions such as Physical Optics and Uniform Theory of Diffraction
• Implemented object geometry definitions, established a beta testing methods for CEM codes
• Created 3D geometrical models for simulation, performed test measurements involving scaled targets
• Expanded the EFIE and MFIE within a FE code to include input wave impedance boundary condition
• Established tests for MoM codes which utilized matrix inversion, Eigen vector and basis function expansions
• Established a database of scaled 3D spectral signatures of numerous complex objects within certain scenarios
• Supported a full-scale subsystem demonstrator test and conducted a system requirement assessment
• Developed automated test procedures for the 777 In-Flight Entertainment Cabin Management System
• Applied “Design for Test” methods for the Entertainment Multiplexer Controller Line Replaceable Unit (LRU)
• Collaborated with circuit designers in selecting integrity test signals before final schematic capture
• Designed a two tone Inter-modulation Distortion test for the NTSC / PAL RF signals
• LRU Tests: Power-up/down, BIST, conductivity, boundary scan (JTAG), and video color bar
• Designed a breakout box, PCB, cable harnesses, and software drivers for automated tests